Personal info
Known for
Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
22 September
Location
Guizhou, China
Edit pageJohn Woo
Biography
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and a highly influential figure in the action film genre. Before working in Hollywood films, he is a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads) and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong action cinema.
He is known for his highly chaotic “bullet ballet” action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion, and allusions to wuxia, film noir, and Western cinema.
Considered one of the major figures of Hong Kong cinema, Woo has directed several notable action films including A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer (1989), Hard Boiled (1992), and Red Cliff (2008/2009). His Hollywood films include Hard Target (1993), Broken Arrow (1996), Face/Off (1997), and Mission: Impossible 2 (2000).
He also created the comic series Seven Brothers, published by Virgin Comics. He is the founder and chairman of the production company Lion Rock Productions.
